From NYPL's Digital Collections: Essential Resources About LGBTQ+ Activism and History

Color photo of men and women holding signs at a demonstration. The signs read "Love is a many-gendered thing" and "New York Mattachine"
Gay rights demonstration, Albany, New York, 1971
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Transgender activist, Sylvia Rivera, holding a sign reading "Gay Power". She is wearing fabulous sunglasses.
Sylvia Rivera at a Gay rights demonstration, Albany, New York, 1971
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Group of people protesting outside a Police Precinct. Someone holds a sign that says "COMMUNITY DEMONSTRATION TO PROTEST SYNDICATE DOMINATION AND POLICE HARASSMENT OF GAYS"
Gay Activist Alliance protest outside of 6th police precinct, Greenwich Village, New York, 1971
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Black and white photo of women wearing "GAY POWER" on their shirts. There is a sign in the background saying "GAY LIBERATION FRONT"
Gay Liberation Front women demonstrate at City Hall, New York
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A sign in the window of Stonewall Inn saying "WE HOMOSEXUAL/OUR PEOPLE/MAINTAIN PEACE/CONDUCT ON THE/VILLAGE
Stonewall Inn, Greenwich Village, New York City, 1969
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Two men, both with moustaches and glasses, standing at a desk with books saying "Gay American History" next to them
Jonathan Katz at Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop
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Black and white photo of group marching in a parage, holding a sign saying "Gays Unite Against the War: Gay Contingent"
Gay Contingent, Vietnam War protest march, New York, November 6, 1971
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Color photo of a goup of men and women holding various signs: "GAY LIBERATION FRONT WOMEN" "REPEAL SODOMY STATUTES" "DEAR RICHARD, I LOVE YOU, WILLIE"
Gay rights demonstration, Albany, New York, 1971
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Marsha P. Johnson standing on a New York City sidewalk, wearing a fur coat
Marsha P. Johnson at New York University Weinstein Hall demonstration
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